Welcome to Barbara Fradkin's Web Page!

Barbara
Fradkin is a retired Ottawa psychologist and award-winning author
whose work with children and families provides much of the insight
and inspiration for her complex psychological stories. She has an affinity
for the dark side, and her compelling stories haunt
several anthologies and magazines, including the Ladies Killing Circle series.

Her eight detective novels feature
the impetuous, quixotic Ottawa Police Inspector Michael Green, whose
passion for justice and love of the hunt often interfere with family, friends and police protocol.
Fifth Son and Honour
Among Men won back-to-back Arthur
Ellis Awards for Best Novel in 2005 and 2007!
Inspector Green's latest chilling challenge, Beautiful Lie the Dead
, is a story about love and all its
complications.

Breaking News!

The Ladies Killing Circle is thrilled to announce the release of a mini ebook of seven rare and out-of-print short stories from their first anthology. Little Treasures is available on Kindle and other e-readers. Barbara's story, "Secrets of the Night", is her very first published work, but it stands the test of time!

In February 2011, Napoleon & Company, the publisher of the Inspector Green series, was bought by Dundurn Press, another Canadian publisher based in Toronto, which has a broad spectrum of books. The Green books and the rest of RendezVous Crime's line of award-winning mystery fiction will continue to be published by Dundurn under the RendezVous Crime imprint. In the current chaotic and rapidly-changing book publishing industry, this is wonderful news, and Barbara is looking forward to working with the staff at Dundurn. She is currently hard at work on the first draft the ninth Inspector Green novel, The Whisper of Legends, which is set in the dramatic world heritage wilderness of the Nahanni River in Canada's Northwest Territories.

Barbara is also very excited about a brand new writing endeavour, a short
novel entitled The Fall Guy, just published in April 2011 by Orca Books as part of their Rapid Reads series. With a rural setting
based on Sharbot Lake, Ontario where her cottage is, and a varied array of
characters led by handyman/ inventor Cedric Elvis O'Toole, it provides a whole
new arena for crime and misadventure. Enough for a new series, in fact. You can check out the cover and more details on The Fall Guy page and at Rapid Reads

She would love to hear from
you if you have comments or questions about her work, or would
like to organize signings, readings, talks or mystery events in your
neighbourhood. She has now ventured into the Brave New World of cyberspace! You may follow her on two blogs:

Type M for Murder, where alternate Wednesdays she comments on writing, books, or whatever she feels like.